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Revealing mistakes: When they find Maria Teresa Garcia's body in the bathtub and are photographing it. You can see her leg drop down slightly just as Det. Pat Chambers says her name to Mike Hammer.See more »

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In my Gun is Quick,The Maltese Falcon flies again but not too high.
Dolls and dead bodies litter the landscape in this Mickey Spillane
story featuring a pair of rookie directors and a cast consisting of
minor TV second stringers that nevertheless rises above its drawbacks
on more than one occasion.

Mike Hammer (Robert Bray) comes to the aid of a stripper in a hash
house when he clocks a thug about to rough her up. Down on her luck she
does sport an impressive rock on her finger, one that is part of a
priceless set stolen by Nazis during the war. When the girl is murdered
Hammer is determined to find her killer. He is also hired by a retired
Army colonel to locate all the jewels, promising him a huge payday.

Busy ducking punches and bullets from flunkies while fending off passes
from dames the disheveled and surly Bray's cynical deadpan economically
conveys Hammer's take on the cesspool society he moves through with few
words. His take on everyone is suspicious and for good reason. Hammer's
character calls for little stretching and the limited and terse Bray
gives Quick a healthy pace by keeping it short and sweet. The rest of
the cast is flat (save for Donald Randolph's inspired Colonel) with the
mugs supplying perfunctory menace, the babes intense uncontrollable
desire for Mike. Considering the personnel My Gun is Quick is a decent
Spillane rendering. It may not approach Kiss Me Deadly but it does
retain it's pulp sensibility most prominently explored in the hang dog
visage of Bray that at times transcends the classic world weary
expressions of Mitchum and Bogart.

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